China

Overview

China ranks as a major producing country for eight of the top 20 marine finfish species in production—the most of any country assessed by GAPI. These include: bastard halibut, cobia, groupers, Japanese seabass, large yellow croaker, red drum, red seabream, and tiger pufferfish. Together, GAPI assesses the performance of over 400,000 mT of marine finfish production in China.

China’s country score (32) is the second-worst of all countries (just above Taiwan’s 30)—far below the global average country score (59). China’s score is significantly undermined by groupers (species-country score of 15). Even more striking is that China’s highest performance score—for tiger pufferfish culture—is only 42. While all assessed Chinese production performs below average, specific performance within each indicator varies widely.

Country Scores

species normalised and cumulative gapi score

Species-Country Pairs Assessed

Species-Country Scores

Indicator Radar Graph

Species-Country Indicator Performance

Indicator Radar Graph

Summary of GAPI Scores

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Normalised and Cumulative GAPI Scores
	Normalised GAPI Score	Cumulative GAPI Score
Country Score	32	36
Countries Average	59	67


GAPI Score by Species-Country Pair
		Species-Country GAPI Score	INPUTS				DISCHARGES				BIOLOGICAL
		Species-Country GAPI Score	CAP	ECOE	FEED	INDE	ANTI	BOD	COP	PARA	ESC	PATH
Bastard halibut	Normalised	41	100	59	34	61	37	39	28	69	49	0
Bastard halibut	Cumulative	43	100	53	26	62	30	51	53	76	61	1

Cobia	Normalised	37	100	0	51	5	37	42	28	35	41	60
Cobia	Cumulative	62	100	30	65	42	56	71	70	69	72	76

Groupers	Normalised	15	0	0	0	0	37	21	28	47	35	3
Groupers	Cumulative	29	0	2	4	20	44	49	62	68	60	25

Japanese seabass	Normalised	32	54	24	18	25	31	4	28	44	35	57
Japanese seabass	Cumulative	19	13	0	0	10	6	6	42	47	39	49

Large yellow croaker	Normalised	41	100	23	33	27	31	37	28	89	48	57
Large yellow croaker	Cumulative	44	100	16	27	31	26	51	54	92	62	60

Red drum	Normalised	26	100	0	4	5	37	21	28	49	37	37
Red drum	Cumulative	37	100	2	7	20	40	46	59	67	59	48

Red seabream	Normalised	25	100	0	0	0	37	11	28	65	44	32
Red seabream	Cumulative	33	100	0	0	10	37	35	57	76	61	40

Tiger pufferfish	Normalised	42	100	66	11	60	37	72	28	84	47	3
Tiger pufferfish	Cumulative	72	100	82	52	82	67	90	78	88	81	56